Daniel Taylor

Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If you don’t know the music of the 18th-century Czech composer, this is an ideal place to start. Singing, choral and solo, is spot on, the orchestral playing vibrant and exciting. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Taylor's gentle singing has the perfect atmosphere of sincerely beautiful piety...Charlotte Nediger plays dextrously and movingly, and the conclusion, 'Mir ekelt mehr zu leben', has an easy... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2012 More…

Frieder Bernius gives us a B minor Mass which neither sits obediently in the groove of seasoned reverence nor resorts to well-worn and predictable period reflexes. It is a reading whose invigorating... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Monterverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists are technically superb and expressive throughout… …Gardiner's expressive range, unfettered by fashionable dogma, achieves compelling results... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is deluxe casting, allowing combinations from unaccompanied lute songs to an a cappella duet, and lute solos to five-part madrigals...Taylor - with one of the loveliest countertenor voices... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

John Eliot Gardiner's strongest qualities are evident in these performances of six Easter cantatas made in his on-going Bach Cantata Pilgrimage series. I particularly admire the fervour with... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…